Law (Graduate Entry) LLB (Hons)

The Solicitors Qualifying Examination

If you’re interested in qualification through the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), we’re here to support you:

• we have partnered with BARBRI, the global legal education provider, to offer you a pathway to qualification through this new route. As part of this partnership, you’ll have a discount on BARBRI fees as well as access to BARBRI-run campus workshops
• in addition to our current assessment modes, we’ll be incorporating multiple-choice questions, the mode of assessment for the SQE
• alongside our core modules, you’ll also have the opportunity to choose options covering specialised areas of law that form part of the SQE.

• Video transcript

  Professor Amir Paz-Fuchs, Sussex Law School: “Welcome to the University of Sussex Law Clinics where theory meets practice and students become real-world problem solvers for their local community.”

  Hashim Al-Metwakill, Migration Law Clinic student: “Although the Law Clinics aren't a module that you have to take here, I really do think that it is one of the best experiences and that everyone should have an opportunity to do them. There are a lot of options in terms of Law Clinics available here. I chose the migration Law Clinic.”

  Paz-Fuchs: “What students get from the clinics is real-life experience, helping people in the community, understanding how the law operates in practice, and gaining extremely valuable skills for their CV and for their employability.”

  Al-Metwakill: “So throughout my time at the Migration Law Clinic, I learned to client interview, draft memos, advice letters, and how to deal with the unexpected. There are situations that arise that you might not know how to react to originally, but with experience and with the guidance of our teachers, you really get to know how to deal with them.”

  Zoe Janae Hoyte, Street Law Clinic: “Doing the clinics has meant that I've gotten to see that I have skills that are going to make a difference for people. Knowing that I can find that purpose in what I've studied in a real impactful way, in a real world, is really empowering for me and has encouraged me to move forward in my route of doing charitable work in a legal setting, and I'm just really excited to know that there's going to be a future in helping people like I have in Street Law.”

  Dr Lucy Welsh, Sussex Law School: “The Law Clinics really empower the students through experiential learning. It's about more than just reading case law or reading articles. It's about rolling up their sleeves and actually making a tangible difference to people's lives through the law.”

  Deanna Coe, Housing Law Clinic student: “It gives you a different law degree in comparison to just looking at statute, writing an essay. You are able to apply the law practically, which you don't get to do everywhere or within every module. If you're writing a dissertation, it's not the same experience whatsoever, but being able to be a part of the Law Clinic, it does give that other angle of your degree and it gives you that other skill set which it is priceless.”

  Haley Stern, Employability Law Clinic student: “I think the Law Clinics really showed me why I'm passionate about law. Why I chose law in general. It's seeing that interpersonal element. It's real-life people with real-life issues and being that person to either help them or just listen to them, is the reason why I came into this. It's about people and at the end of the day, it's about that person in that time of their life. So if you can help them, that's the best thing. That's the only thing you can ask for really.”